Re: [MSE] Appending URLs

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:
> If we are going to provided download progress information for adaptive
> streaming though this API, then ideally it should have the following
> properties:
> - progress information should be associated with the URL/byte range
> - the HTTP response time should be available and separated from any time
> spend doing redirections, CORS pre-flights etc.
> - the bytes received information should be provided in the form of triples
> (reception start, reception end, bytes received) so that the script does not
> average over time periods where the client was (deliberately) not receiving
> data (or, equivalently, we could have reception start/stop/progress events
> that come with timestamps).

+1.

Will implementations have the option of initiating multiple requests
per source in parallel (to reduce startup latency)?

Steve

Received on Monday, 18 June 2012 20:43:59 UTC